Hm, to put it in a nutshell. If I'm cracking things open and just replacing parts I'd rather just go the whole nine yards and get a new build entirely, especially if any of which requires swapping out the mobo or CPU cooler. Obviously isn't the most cost effective route, but it's just what I'm accus...

Welcome to SPCR. I deleted your email address to keep it from being hoovered up by webcrawlers /subjected to later spam. People can email you by clicking on the link in your profile. It doesn't take a lot of CPU power to record/mix audio. If you use tons of VMs, then it's a different story. Video e...

So long story short my tech buddy of years who's always handled everything PC build/internal fix related has separated from me, sad day. I recently bought a Dell XPS computer at Best Buy for around $800 I believe it was for a parent since their old computer finally died out. Well one thing that abso...